4/30/2008 @ 6:00PM

In Pictures: A Guide To Arsenal's Shareholders

Director from 1983, when he bought a 16.6% stake in club for 292,000 pounds, to 2007 when he resigned as vice chairman after failing to get board support for takeover by U.S. billionaire E. Stanley Kroenke. Once owned 42% stake but sold down holdings, selling final 14.6% in August 2007 for 75 million pounds to Russian metals magnate Alisher Usmanov’s Red & White Holdings, of which he became chairman. Oversaw football matters for Arsenal. Well connected in the football establishment, “Double-D” served as vice chairman of the Football Association and was a force in the creation of the English Premiership. Also chaired the now disbanded G-14 group of leading European clubs.